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Windows malware family built to steal login credentials and cryptocurrency, whose command-and-control decisions come from queries to several commercial large language model services.
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Cisco Talos released its CAIRN framework on September 22nd to hunt prompts, provider endpoints and API-key prefixes in malware metadata. Its first case study polls four commercial models and runs the winner.
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Cisco Talos found a 16.4MB Go implant that asks DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral and Gemini what to do next and acts on the winning vote, treating the providers themselves as its C2 infrastructure. Talos has no confirmation it was ever deployed.
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Cisco Talos has open-sourced CAIRN, a framework that tags malware by the traces its AI calls leave in metadata. The first sample it surfaced polls DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral and Gemini for orders and decides for itself.
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